Re: MBR problem

2004-11-24 Thread Punit Ahluwalia
Solved. Thanks for all who helped. Just couple of clarifications for those who refer this in future: "root" in grub corresponds to the drive where grub is installed, usually in /boot/grub root = (hdx,y) /* put hd inside the braces and not as shown in the message below) */ similarly setup(hd0

Re: MBR problem

2004-11-24 Thread cr
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:40, Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote: > Punit Ahluwalia wrote: > >I installed grub to /dev/hdc2 which is also /root. This is not a dual > > boot. It is plain and simple "Woody". > > > >How do I install grub to the MBR? > > you must start grub, either from in a working linux or by b

Re: MBR problem

2004-11-23 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
Punit Ahluwalia wrote: I installed grub to /dev/hdc2 which is also /root. This is not a dual boot. It is plain and simple "Woody". How do I install grub to the MBR? you must start grub, either from in a working linux or by booting directly into grub. from the grub command line: $ root = hd(x,y

Re: MBR problem

2004-11-23 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:43:32PM -0800, Punit Ahluwalia wrote: > I installed grub to /dev/hdc2 which is also /root. This is not a dual boot. > It is plain > and simple "Woody". > > How do I install grub to the MBR? If I understand your setup correctly, you want to install grub to hda. This is

Re: MBR problem

2004-11-23 Thread Punit Ahluwalia
I installed grub to /dev/hdc2 which is also /root. This is not a dual boot. It is plain and simple "Woody". How do I install grub to the MBR? --- CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:00:38AM -0800, Punit Ahluwalia wrote: > > Thanks for the response. But I did dpkg

Re: MBR problem

2004-11-23 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:00:38AM -0800, Punit Ahluwalia wrote: > Thanks for the response. But I did dpkg -P lilo. yet, nothing chnages. > This sounds like your BIOS is trying to boot the old LILO boot sector rather than your grub boot sector. Are you installing grub to the MBR or to a partition

Re: MBR problem

2004-11-23 Thread Punit Ahluwalia
Thanks for the response. But I did dpkg -P lilo. yet, nothing chnages. --- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Punit Ahluwalia wrote: > > >After upgrading to kernel 2.6.7, my system does not bring up the lilo or > >grub menu. I > was > >using lilo initially but tried setting up grub, but it

Re: MBR problem

2004-11-22 Thread Kent West
Punit Ahluwalia wrote: After upgrading to kernel 2.6.7, my system does not bring up the lilo or grub menu. I was using lilo initially but tried setting up grub, but it seems the problem is unrelated with either of them. After the BIOS transfers the control, the screen displays a message "searchi

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread Jim Darrough
If your drive has more than 1024 cylinders, that can cause a problem as well. If it is, you might try repartitioning it into two partitions, then install potato on the first partition. Making sure of course that the first partition ends at cylinder 1023. Also, if you have SCSI drives, sometimes

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread The Doc
I think I'm just going to resort to booting off a floppy. I appreciate all the help I've recieved. doc _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi doc those silly lilo problems could be due to many possible reasons... try each of the following... - boot off floppy ( best bet ) - boot into single user than run lilo again ( if it fails..try more of the following experiments - use a rescue disks and create a bootable flop

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread Robert Schmidt
y linear instead of lba32, see if that helps. Finally, what sort of machine is this on? How old is the bios etc? -Original Message- From: The Doc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 12:13 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: MBR Problem I tried fdisk /mb

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread The Doc
I tried fdisk /mbr and then reinstalled potato, installing lilo on /dev/hda1, not the MBR. I still get that shit when I boot. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread D. Hoyem
If this is a dual boot system do the fdisk /mbr from the dos prompt. --- Robert Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fdisk /mbr should do it > > -Original Message- > From: The Doc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 11:46 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject:

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread Robert Schmidt
fdisk /mbr should do it -Original Message- From: The Doc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 11:46 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: MBR Problem Hello all, I need a way to clear my master boot record on my first hard disk. No matter how much I uninstall and

Re: MBR problem with 486

2001-04-09 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Hello Frederik, * Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Hi all, > > I've installed Debian 2.2 on an old 486 yesterday (which caused some minor > problems). Everything turned out fine in the end, except the boot > process. It's a Linux-only system, I've partitioned the disk as follows: > /dev/hda1: /bo